Mansfield - The Co-op Bank and Beales Department Store
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Mansfield - The Co-op Bank and Beales Department Store
Image: © Dave Bevis Taken: 12 Feb 2016
This building on Queen Street currently houses the Cooperative Bank and Beales Department Store. The main entrances to Beales are on the neighbouring Stockwell Gate. A brief history of the Mansfield Co-operative Society follows below. 1864: The Mansfield Co-operative Society is formed. 1914: By this date the Co-op was operated by the Mansfield & Sutton Co-operative, according to the war memorial plaque now sited in the Queen Street premises. 1918: The store on Stockwell Gate was destroyed in a fire. 1922: The new and enlarged Mansfield & Sutton Co-operative store, Stockwell Gate, opens on the site of that destroyed by fire in 1918. 1938: The Queen Street building was officially opened. 1970: The Co-operative Societies of Mansfield & Sutton, Pleasley, Pleasley Hill, and Clowne, were merged. 1983: The Greater Nottingham and the Mansfield and Worksop Co-operative Societies agreed to merge. 1984: A Co-op Superstore was opened on the site of the old Portland Wharf, Station Street. 2006: The Greater Nottingham Coop transferred its department store businesses (including the one in Mansfield) to the Anglia Co-operative Society and the stores were rebranded as "Westgate" (not to be confused with the nearby street name in Mansfield). 2011: The Anglia Society sold the business of its 19 Westgate Department Stores, including the one in Mansfield, to Beales. Most of the above information is provided at http://www.ourmansfieldandarea.org.uk/page_id__501_path__0p2p19p.aspx , but other information has been provided by http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27083 , http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCW001831&pos=9&action=zoom&id=50810 , http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;NCCW002413&pos=4&action=zoom&id=51387 , and http://www.chad.co.uk/news/local/co-op-sale-boost-for-historic-outlet-1-3264920 .
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